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“For that brief period when everything ugly is covered under the sparkle of something so new, the world almost feels like it’s living up to its potential.”

The Project by Courtney Summers

November 5, 2024 by Bibliophile Leave a Comment

CBR 16 Bingo – Cult: The main character’s sister joined a cult, and the main character is trying to reconnect with said sister. Lo Denham and her sister Bea were close, until their parents died in a car accident and Bea left to join a mysterious cult called The Unity Project. Now, 6 years later, Lo has been trying for years to reconnect with her sister, unsuccessfully, until she gets the perfect opportunity. However, it is clear that Bea doesn’t want to be found, so […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: cbr16bingo, Courtney Summers

Bibliophile's CBR16 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: cbr16bingo, Courtney Summers ·
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Well-written but not for me.

I'm the Girl by Courtney Summers

November 17, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. I don’t think Courtney Summers is for me. I’ve tried three of her books now. This is an extremely well-written and timely young adult thriller that is supposedly about the death of a young girl found on the side of the road, but it’s really about how the world is built to use up pretty young women and undermine their self-worth, and what that looks like. The main […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: ARCs, audiobooks, Courtney Summers, female-centric thrillers, I'm the Girl, mystery, narfna, NetGalley, thrillers, YA, ya thriller, Young Adult

narfna's CBR14 Review No:191 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: ARCs, audiobooks, Courtney Summers, female-centric thrillers, I'm the Girl, mystery, narfna, NetGalley, thrillers, YA, ya thriller, Young Adult ·
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Extra Reading March 2022

Batman: The Killing Joke by Christa Faust and Gary Phillips

The Big East: Inside the Most Entertaining and Influential Conference in College Basketball History by Dana O'Neil

In The Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero

The Banks by Roxane Gay, Ming Doyle (Illustrator)

One Night, New York by Lara Thompson

The Secret Lives of Married Women by Elissa Wald

Lost and Found in Harlem by Delia C. Pitts

Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Scandal in Babylon by Barbara Hambly

Sadie by Courtney Summers

April 1, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

These are the books I finished in the month of March in which I didn’t have time or words to elaborate on… Batman: The Killing Joke *** Two of my favorites team up for a Batman prose novel? Yes! But the end result is just okay. Interestingly enough, I think both writers do a better job with the random Gothamites than they do with the Caped Crusader and his primary nemesis. You’re fine just reading Alan Moore’s legendary graphic novel. The Big East: Inside the […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fanfiction, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Sports, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: autobiography, Barbara Hambly, Batman, Beautiful Little Fools, Christa Faust and Gary Phillips, College Basketball, Colombia, comic prose novel, Courtney Summers, crime, Dana O'Neil, Delia C. Pitts, Diane Guerrero, Elissa Wald, erotica, fanfiction, Film Industry, Graphic Novel, harlem, heist, historical fiction, Hollywood, Immigration, in the country we love, Jillian Cantor, Lara Thompson, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA romance, Libba Bray, Lost and Found in Harlem, mystery, One Night New York, Ross Detective Agency, Roxane Gay, Ming Doyle (Illustrator), sadie, Scandal in Babylon, short stories, The Banks, The Big East, The Great Gatsby, The Joker, The Killing Joke, The Secret Lives of Married Women, Young Adult

Jake's CBR14 Review No:51 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fanfiction, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Sports, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: autobiography, Barbara Hambly, Batman, Beautiful Little Fools, Christa Faust and Gary Phillips, College Basketball, Colombia, comic prose novel, Courtney Summers, crime, Dana O'Neil, Delia C. Pitts, Diane Guerrero, Elissa Wald, erotica, fanfiction, Film Industry, Graphic Novel, harlem, heist, historical fiction, Hollywood, Immigration, in the country we love, Jillian Cantor, Lara Thompson, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIA romance, Libba Bray, Lost and Found in Harlem, mystery, One Night New York, Ross Detective Agency, Roxane Gay, Ming Doyle (Illustrator), sadie, Scandal in Babylon, short stories, The Banks, The Big East, The Great Gatsby, The Joker, The Killing Joke, The Secret Lives of Married Women, Young Adult ·
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How they get you.

The Project by Courtney Summers

March 2, 2021 by narfna 2 Comments

Overall, this was a great book. I read it super fast, and found it very compelling in multiple ways. I did have two pretty big problems with it, though, so it’s not getting that five star rating I thought it might when I was halfway through. This is only my second Courtney Summers book, my first being her previous novel, Sadie, which I liked but didn’t love (I did the audio and thought the production was horrendous, which definitely affected my feelings towards the book). […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Courtney Summers, cults, Fiction, mystery, the project

narfna's CBR13 Review No:22 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Courtney Summers, cults, Fiction, mystery, the project ·
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“‘It’ll heal ugly.’ But most things do.”

Sadie by Courtney Summers

March 9, 2020 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

First off, you MUST read the audiobook version of this, put that print edition down, the audio is where it’s at! West McCray is a public-radio type audio personality who specializes in stories about small nobody-towns in America.  One day at a gas station, he learns about a local girl who has gone missing. Sadie Hunter was grieving the recent and brutal murder of her sister Mattie when she disappeared. Local police believe it to be a simple case of a runaway not worth pursuing, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: Courtney Summers, dark, full cast audio, mystery, Podcasts, Suspense, thriller, YA, Young Adult

cosbrarian's CBR12 Review No:11 · Genres: Audiobooks, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: Courtney Summers, dark, full cast audio, mystery, Podcasts, Suspense, thriller, YA, Young Adult ·
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I really need half stars on this one.

Sadie by Courtney Summers

January 13, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

Firstly, I’m nearly certain that I would have given this four stars unreservedly had I not done the audio version. YMMV, obviously, on all books. But here, the audio really pulled me out of the story. I’ll explain. So this book is about bad things that happen to girls, and it’s split into two parts that alternate every other chapter. The first is a fake podcast with a host who is trying to track down the missing 19 year old, Sadie Hunter, after a family […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult Tagged With: Courtney Summers, narfna, revenge, sadie, Suspense, YA, Young Adult

narfna's CBR12 Review No:8 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult · Tags: Courtney Summers, narfna, revenge, sadie, Suspense, YA, Young Adult ·
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